Details
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Improvement
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Status: Closed
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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2.3.24
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None
Description
Facts:
<input type="date" />
is the HTML5 standard for inputing dates. It works in many browsers: Chrome, Opera, almost every mobile browsers - where it is fundamental - and the coverage can only grow.
- w3 has chosen the RFC3339 with date only as value format
yyyy-MM-dd
while transparently handling the display format according to the Locale.
This means that, for example, americans seeMM/dd/yyyy
, italians see
dd/MM/yyyy
, but both of them send
yyyy-MM-dd
to the server. Without the time part.
- Struts Date Converter already works for:
DateConverter.java
DateFormat dt1 = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.LONG, locale); DateFormat dt2 = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.MEDIUM, locale); DateFormat dt3 = DateFormat.getDateTimeInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, DateFormat.SHORT, locale); DateFormat d1 = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.SHORT, locale); DateFormat d2 = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.MEDIUM, locale); DateFormat d3 = DateFormat.getDateInstance(DateFormat.LONG, locale); DateFormat rfc3339 = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss");
with a final fallback to
DateFormat.SHORT
if nothing worked (in case of Time and Timestamps too).
My idea is:
can we add the support for date-only RFC3339, that is the one sent by the browser, in addition to the ones already there ? No existing code would break, and we'd have a standard, automatic conversion for a popular, growing standard.
I can't see any cons. Can you ?